Suspender-end



(No Model.)

B. DEMING.

SUSPENDER END.

.750 Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

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ERNEST DEMING, OF MIDDLETO\VN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDER-END.

EPECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,750, dated March 9, 1886.

Application filed January 18, 1886. Serial No. 188,891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST DEMING, of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Suspender-Ends; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view of the suspender-end complete; Fig. 2,arear view of the same; Fig. 3, the strap and button-hole portions detached; Fig. 4, the clasp detached and in flat condition; Fig. 5, a transverse section through the doubled portions and clasp; Fig. 6, a longitudinal central section through the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of suspender-ends in which the button-hole is made separate from the strap and secured thereto, the invention being particularly applicable to the strap formed from braid, doubled upon itself, as described in another application which I have made for Letters Patent, Serial No. 183,599. In that invention the tab or button-hole portion is made from leather or similar material, having the button-hole cut therein, the tab secured to the strap by a clasp adapted to embrace the lower end of the strap and the upper end of the tab.

The object of my present invention is to make the tab or button hole portion from braid, doubled upon itself in like manner as the strap; and it consists in the construction hereinafter described, and more particularly 'recited in the claims.

The strap A is made from braided material of half the Width of the strap, the braid doubled upon itself at the lower end, as at B, Fig. 3,and as in my application before referred to. The button-hole portion 0 is made from similar braid, cut to the required length and doubled upon itself, as also seen in Fig. 3; but in so doubling the braid is not brought so close together as in the strap, and so that a space is left from the bend upward, the two legs coming together at the upper end, as indicated in broken lines in that figure. The two ends of the button-hole portion thus brought together are laid upon the lower doubled end (No model.)

of the strap, as seen in Fig. 5, O 0 indicating the two ends of the buttonhole portion, and B the strap.

A clasp is applied to secure the two parts together. The clasp which I employ is of peculiar construction, and is seen detached in Fig. 4. It consists of two segments, a b, the circle of which should correspond to the bent or doubled end of the strap. These two are joined by a connection, 0, this connection being substantially the thickness of the lapped strap and button-hole portion. The one seg ment, a, is constructed with a flap, d, at each end, and the segment I) is constructed with a flat extension, e, all in the same plane. The outer edge of the segment b,as well as the extension e,is constructed with spursf, more or less in number. The segment a is provided with internal spurs, 9, more or less in number, and other spurs, h, may be applied to the upper edge of the flap portion. The spurs are turned from the two parts in the same direction.

In applying the clasp the button-hole is lapped upon the inside of the strap A, the segment b,with its extensionjs passed through the button-hole, and the two parts turned down upon the respective sides, bringing the connection 0 at the upper end of the buttonhole. The part (2 lies flat upon the reverse side of the strap, as does the segment 6. The segment c lies upon the front side of the strap, as seen in Fig. 1, the segment shape following the shape of the end of the strap. The spurs are forced into the fabric of the two parts, as indicated in Figs. 5 and 6, and then the flaps d are turned over and struck down upon the part c, as seen in Figs. 2 and 5, so as to secure the clasp to the parts and the parts together.

The segments being open, the doubled end of the strap is exposed, and the clasp presents a very light and ornamental appearance upon the front, yet possesses a great degree of strength.

I claim- 1. A suspender-end consisting of the strap A, made from braid or material doubled upon itself at the lower end, bringing the two parts into the same plane, and the button-hole portion 0, also formed from a piece of flat braid or material doubled upon itself to form the button-hole, the two ends lapped upon the tension, e, the two parts provided with spurs 1o doubled end of the strap, combined with a adapted to enter the lapped portions of the clasp embracing the lapped portions of the suspender-end, in the manner substantially as two parts, substantially as described. described.- 5 2. The clasp herein described, for uniting the strap and button-hole portions of a sus- ERNEST DEMING' pender-end, consisting of two connected seg- Witnesses: ments, a b, the one, a, constructed with flaps HENRY WOODWARD, d d, the other segment constructed with an eX- O. R. WOODWARD. 

